Im working at a yellow term. and they are using the hogboard.Came from a roadwy term were they used start times and you had certain days off.(seems like a more driver friendly way of doing it)Hog board only benefits the most senior guys doesnt share the wealth to everyone a hog board doesnt seem like its the union way
Ditto on the working to and from now, same here. Well it's definitely a 2-faced coin issue. And I can see and understand both sides to an extent. You have the senior guys working the "hog board" as it is aptly named, but also at one point they were also junior men, and had to wait their turn, sometimes you would think they also would understand the frustration of juniors as having been their themselves, but at senior level, they dealt with it, and waited it out until they became them senior guys, and feel that if it was good enough for them to wait, it's good enough for others also. And juniors are wanting to make enough to have their "bennies" paid and be able to afford to put gas in their cars to get to work, and put food on the table also.
But it is also nice to have the start days and times, so you can plan to take care of any personal business and or make arrangements to do things with you family, in that time frame. Rather than being stuck to the house waiting on a work call, but then, you can always pack your stuff in your vehicle, put your home phone on call forwarding, nowadays to your cell, unless your location will pay for long distance calls to call you into work(didn't have that luxury years ago), had to have an 800 number for work to call, and take both vehicles to wherever you were going, and if the call comes in leave from there(done that a few times). Hopefully, all the locations can get everything under one set of rules or the other, and not all the back and forth.